skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is perfectly possible that a given company performance can be reached by different paths, some better for employees, some worse.

In fact, I think that even seems like a very plausible hypothesis, given that treating your employees worse can have advantages (reduction in costs and headcount) and disadvantages (less motived and potentially productive employees, worse retention, difficulties attracting people) for the employer, so those two may roughly cancel out under a whole lot of different conditions.

So for the employer there may be no benefit (but also not really a downside) to treating employees better, but add to the mix this strong cultural idea in US business circles that unions are the worst and you get this taboo against unions and no market pressure to change that.

Obviously this is a quite horrific situation to be in because we get worse outcomes for employees and unchanged outcomes for employers. So no one benefits and most people have worse outcomes. Bad all around.
LinkedIn has tons of APIs you just have to request access to them as a developer.
> they would come in at 7 (who does that)

To answer your question human beings who want work life balance and want to do things with friends and family in the afternoon. Or do you believe that a work day should ONLY be for work?
> and best OS

I do networking stuff and macOS is on par with Windows - I can't live on it without running into bugs or very questionable behavior for longer than a week. Same as Windows.
What do you mean without a VM? I guess you don't count docker/podman as VMs then?
Spoiler alert:

It has an XSS vulnerability baked in - if you add a `?continue=javascript:alert('Hi')`, you'll see a button below the easter egg text
You narrow your question down too much. Because the answer is mostly "neither".

The actual question would be "would this answer be different if Europe did not have access to cheap labor that have come out of Asia, South Americas and Africa" or "To what extent is more time “enabled” by externalising many costs?". And consequentially "to what extent is America’s money enabled by having access to cheap labor, cheap manufacturing and externalising costs to Asian, South American and African markets".
> but it is about selling luxury hardware.

While Apple is first and foremost a hardware company, it has more or less always been about the "Apple experience". They've never "just" been a hardware company.

For as long as Apple has existed, they've done things "their way" both with hardware and software, though they tend to want to abstract the software away.

If it was merely a question of selling hardware, why does iCloud exist ? or AppleTV+, or Handoff ? or iMessage, or the countless other seemingly small life improvements that somehow the remainder of the industry cannot seem to figure out how to do well.

Just a "simple" thing as switching headphones seamlessly between devices is something i no longer think about, it just happens, and it takes a trip with a Windows computer and a regular bluetooth headset to remind me how things used to be.

As part of their "privacy first" strategy, iMessage also fits in nicely. Apple doesn't have to operate a huge instant messaging network, which undoubtedly is not making a profit, but they do, because having one entry to secure, encrypted communication fits well with the Apple Experience. iMessage did so well at abstracting the ugly details of encryption that few people even think about that that's what the blue bubble is actually about, it more or less only means your message is end to end encrypted. As a side effect you can also send full resolution images (and more), but that's in no way unique to iMessage.
> Yes. Have you seen the Gamer Hardware Enthusiast community?

I'd venture 95% of people run stock, 4% do undervolting and 1% do overclocking.

Which isn't that strange because GPU vendors have become relatively adept at pushing the silicon near its max. Its why you can run an aggressive undervolt with a few percentage point lower clocks and be rewarded with a 20-30% wattage drop with commensurate drop temperatures and fan noise, all whilst losing perhaps <5% performance.

But the GPU vendors want to put big number on box so they'll have users suffer loud fans :-)
The future is not looking too bright on the climate change front. Anecdotally temperatures have consistently been 5-8 deg C warmer than average this Autumn in Pretoria.

On the global war front things are looking pretty ominous too.

John Mearsheimer remarked recently that he was glad he was born and lived in the post WW2 era.
Great question. Ledt assume that you’re discussing a topic like working hours. Your company says you have to work. 14h each day, and you argue that if you have to do that, you’ll be sleep deprived, make mistakes and be so low productivity that it wouldn’t benefit the company, especially since they would have to pay you more with a constant hourly wage than if you worked fewer hours and was more productive.
The company argues: “STFU pessent, you’ll work when we say, how long we say and exactly how we say or you’re fired this instance, now get back in line before I duct your pay for the time you’re wasting by even thinking you’re worthy of talking to someone in management!”

Now in that scenario the worker has no power at all, even though it actually is as we all know today, a proven benefit to have resonable working hours for the company.

So if you have a union and all the workers can collectively go “we need to talk about work hours or we strike” you force through the policy that is ultimately beneficial to the company, even though management hates the idea of there being 6hours more per day that their wage slaves are not at the work benches.

Why would workers argue for fewer hours if it doesn’t end up costing the company net profits? Because they are humans, not machines, and not everything in this world boils down to pure profit driven motives.
I think it's good advice to have out there to make it clear to people that if your primary, or only, motivation for writing is money you're effectively investing your time in a lottery ticket and you ought to consider if you're comfortable spending that much time paying for a lottery ticket.

For some it will mean they won't write. For others it will mean that they adapt to try to bring down the investment and increase the chance of success. E.g. submitting shorter works to magazines or taking editing or smaller writing jobs are both far more likely to pay off, and far lower investment.

But if you're working on a novel because you want to write, then you should ignore the numbers in the article and write anyway, and see it as a sobering view of how little it takes to be a relative success as a writer. E.g. you're already doing better than most once you're selling in the low thousands, even if that isn't paying the bills.
I disagree entirely on the 'reasonable' implementation part. If something was that big the memory was already allocated, and it's not unlikely to grow again. Shifting memory/resources within a lifespan of a particular instance (likely used as a queue) to another resource (and staying unchanged afterwards) is a rare occurrence in practice.
Even the interests of the older members of the union diverge from the younger members (not unlike a country). Pretty much every defined benefit pension plan has “tiers” of benefits, where the older members voted themselves higher benefits in exchange for younger members getting less.
That's a nonfiction book, outside the field covered by the post, but good attempt to promote your book
When you install Debian, you have a choice of desktops. You can even install multiple if you don't yet have a preferred one.
> "The facts suggest otherwise. The US has a higher government debt-to-GDP ratio than almost all European countries: 123 per cent, nearly double that of work-shy Germany, and triple Norway, Sweden and Denmark, reports the IMF."
The Hypochondria Diagnosis Is Officially Gone, but Health Anxiety Is Everywhere
> “But advances are not earnings—they are a guess on the part of the publisher what an author will earn in book sales.”

Not really. An advanced is a loan you don’t have to pay back. If you get a $5000 advance, you won’t get paid for any of the books sold until they surpass a $5000 net of royalties.
Rockyou.txt Translated into German
The point is exactly that "it is totally expected", and it has caused massive losses over the decades. It has been abused for everything ranging from turning your friend's PC off, to ransomware, to state-on-state espionage and even causing nuclear incidents in Iran's enrichment facilities.

The behavior is undefined.
For this engineering, I think calculus is not the main proficiency enhancer you claim it to be. Linear Algebra, combinatorics, probability and number theory are more relevant.

Calculus was important during the world wars because it means we could throw shells to the enemy army better, and that was an important issue during that period.

Nowadays, calculus is just a stepping stone to more relevant mathematics.
If you textually define a function "inline" in an header file yet do not mark it inline, you are duplicating it in every point where the declaration is imported, yet, not being inline for linkage purposes, you will get compilation errors.

Member and template functions are special cased to be implicitly inline.
And the dropping of balls by a US semiconductor manufacturer has never happened before. So we should be OK.
Yeah. Because it's based on just files, you can work across multiple platforms using shared folders like iCloud storage. However, for merging during simultaneous edits, each note is composed of multiple JSON files and folders.
go here and click the button

https://matan-h.com/common-google-xss?continue=javascript:al...
> Yet the primary effect it will have is for China to become less dependent on foreign chips faster.

That's not a given. US did to Japan something similar in the '80s, and they never recovered. Today, ASML is at the forefront of lithography, not Nikon and Canon.
> it’s about expressing ideas and feelings

Yes, and spelling errors don't really matter to express yourself.

> disgraceful and disrespectful toward something as magnificent and powerful as language

If language wants to take that up with me, send him or her over to my place and I'll beat 'em up! But seriously, language is a tool, it's not a work of art. Things you make with language can be a work of art, so go read those instead of the misspelled crap that drives you to this level of anger.

> it’s about the attitude

You need to chill about other people's attitudes. You cannot affect other people, and you shouldn't let them make you see red like this. Other people's opinions and attitudes are none of your business, frankly.
100% agree. This is exactly what we do at our brewery and it comes out great. A simple fermenter with a pour spigot works wonderfully (we use this one because we already had it [1]). Soak the ground beans for 12-24 hours in a mesh bag in the cooler, remove the bag and drink on it all week.. or till it's gone.

[1] https://www.ssbrewtech.com/products/brewbucket
You mean that forcing developers to work 60 hours weeks do not work? Surprise!!
Old smartphones are often free, especially Android ones. I get mine from friends, family and of course my superseded units.
it is ironic that while mechanically EVs are much simpler, they are only shipped with all the complexity from electronic side.

i am not an automobile engg, but the core parts required to run an EV (motor control, battery management, etc.) has to be comparable to the ECU that are in decades-old Hondas and Toyotas.
"it's" just means "it is"

for everything else, there's "its"

I believe that will get you out of 99% of the "it's vs its" problems you find in day to day life.

Bonus: If you're almost sure you need "it's" but not totally, just read the sentence as "...blah blah IT IS blah blah..." and if that doesn't make sense use "its" instead.

Edit: Some would gatekeep English, I don't personally care except that it seemed to give you a lot of stress and I hate to see someone upset, truly, so I thought I might help. I have a lot of trouble with grammar rules, too, so I have certain ways of thinking that I figure could help you and others. In reality, its or it's will read the same in your head and have further context as you read, so it doesn't really matter.
I would go all-in.
Web Components is not (just) about technology, but about 4 companies working together on setting a standard.
Companies that used to fight in the Browser Wars now work together on the standard.
They are the WHATWG that took the role of the W3C HTML/Web workinggroup.
4 companies ... Apple, Google, Mozilla and Microsoft

And the WHATWG (for now) is "by invitation only"... note the big name missing.
Yes I'm thinking of buildings probably 1980/90s onwards. We are tearing them down and rebuilding apartments in some cases I'm aware of. That seems like a real shame to be honest.

I know in canary wharf for example they are turning some into children's nurseries and schools which feels "interesting" I'm absolutely certain if they could cost effectively be converted for much much more lucrative apartments they would be.
As long as the code is libre, the Ubuntu LTS releases will perfectly map the Trisquel ones.

Today, if some service needs propietary code, it's doomed to rot.

For firmware with desktop users and programmers/devops using Ubuntu at work -not an issue on servers- , it's preferable to use the Xanmod kernel with Trisquel than falling into thw whole cascade of propietary code in Ubuntu.

At least nonfree firmware it's a non burnt hardware ROM; that setup it's 90% free according to the FSF values. Also, you don't get overlayed taxing crap as snaps.
> Remember when the complaint was that the pelican case of factory OEM tools you could rent (or buy) to install your factory replacement screen was too big and bulky, meaning it was really just a plot to sabotage right to repair?

Yes, I do. That was and continues to be a valid complaint, among all other anti-repair schemes Apple have come up with over the years. DRM for parts, complete unavailability of some commonly repaired parts, deliberate kneecapping of "Apple authorized service providers", leveraging the US customs to seize shipments of legitimate and/or unlabeled replacement parts as "counterfeits", gaslighting by official representatives on Apple's own forums about data recovery, sabotaging right to repair laws, and even denial of design issues[1] to weasel out of warranty repair just to name a few.

All with the simple anti-competitive goal of making third party repair (both authorized and independent) a less attractive option due to artificially increased prices, timelines to repair, or scaremongering about privacy.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/weakened-right-to-re...

https://www.pcgamer.com/ifixit-says-apples-iphone-14-is-lite...

[1] Butterfly keyboards, display cables that were too short and failed over time
I'd say in life you generally want to stick to 20/80 80/20.

Spend 20% in effort and/or currency to get 80% of the optimal result. Spending the other 80% to get another 20% gain is rarely worth it.
It seems it is not copyright but veto right. But he has passed away. Cannot veto any more?
Ballpoint pen TIPS.

Which BTW USA _still_ DOESN'T produce - not can't (distinction important) just like PRC didn't want (again, not can't) to produce tips until 2017.

Prior to 2017, only Switzerland, Japan made ballpoint tips.

Reason PRC ended up making ballpoint tips was premiere used tips as proxy for scaling up precision manufacturing of tungsten carbide for advanced munitions. Which they did in about a year, because PRC focusing state capacity pretty good at demonlishing moats. In this case they got state metallurgical factory (TISCO) with revenue with $15 billion to divert (waste) their massive resources to make some ballpoint pen tips, which had a global addressable market of 20M, aka rounding error for PRC state owed metal industry. Meme/rumor is TISCO made one batch of ballpoint pen tip metal and that's enough to supply domestic tip maker for decades. The _real_ story behind the pen tips is building up machines to make advanced munitions at scale, few years later, i.e. now - we have stories of PRC cruise missile gigafactory that can churni out components for 1000 missiles per day. A few days is sum US+partner production per year. For reference JP acquiring 400 tomahawks for 1.7B.
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Dr. Geoff Lindsey just put out an interesting video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6duEGj04Mg

not tldr but provocative thought derived: why insist that "it's" as a possessive is wrong, when it follows an existing pattern (john's, everyone's) and speech doesn't make the distinction?
I'd take mutability for an array as given. If I wanted functional style data structures I'd use them. Personally I see zero reason for immutability of an array, imagine every add/push had to create a new instance of the said array.
> By quitting it once you saved enough.

What is "enough" and how much guarantee is there that I'll reach that?

It's rather similar to what investing calls the DCF - but with time: time I have today is worth more than time I might have in future. For several reasons:

Time I have today is guaranteed. The future is unknown. But rather known, is that in the future I'll be older, my health and energy lower and therefore my options limited. The quality of "time" is potentially much higher when you are 20 than when you are 83. And then there's the risk that I don't even make it far beyond my 70ies.
That is because an updated version of the same statement but from a sales perspective (2024) was criticized by a Slate article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40288047
Y'all missing the point in this:

- I hired a company to do some construction work and in that particular location, due to how the contracts were set, I could only get union work. Expensive and no over time.

- In another location which did not had this kind of restriction, I hired another company that was not unionized: they worked longer hours and as a result finished faster. Also their hourly rates were lower.

Point being, in a non-union market you can do a lot more faster.

And to get to the financial issue, all hours were paid, so just in case it is not clear, there was never a question of not wanting to pay overtime. The question was why I should pay ~20-25% more for the same work?
Interesting.

Perhaps someone knowledgeable could add context as to why they wouldn't include EU. I know they've passed more regulation and earlier... But in technical/legal terms...

Not enough time to ensure compliance?
Capability or privacy issues exceed regulatory framework?

I haven't been following the regulatory side too closely as of late.
Seems library mentioned not finished. After 9 years how it that ?
This is really cool and usefull. Thanks for sharing!
History has proven over and over again that with the right political will anything is possible. The US put people on the moon in the 60s because the government willed it. They are unable to do so now, because the political will for it is not there any more.

If their government wills an independent and competitive semiconductor industry, then it will happen sooner than we think.

Hell, China will develop commercially viable fusion power if their government wills it.
I write fast when I do sit down to write, and so I looked into them to see if it felt like it'd be worth it. There are some people making lots of money that way, but personally, I concluded it sounds like torture.

My son reads lots of them, and he complains if an author doesn't push a new chapter at least once a day, and it's clear a lot of these authors have no buffer because while it may not sound like a lot - a chapter can be anything from 500 to ~3k words or so and my "record" was 11k in a day - most people struggle to maintain an output anywhere near that high on average, and my own average is also too low in large part because I need to be in the mood to write. I've self-published two novels, and wrote the last in three weeks, but I've now been at the half-way point for my third novel for many months.

I could probably force it, but then I wouldn't enjoy it, and to do something I wouldn't enjoy and still likely end up earning far less than in my day job would not be worth it to me.

It might be something more would-be authors might want to try to see if they can do it, if they'll enjoy it or at least find it tolerable, and if they'll do well, but that market is also heavily skewed towards very specific niches that you may or may not find you can stand writing in.
I second this. I don't know anything about his life. But after reading his stories chronologically he must have gone through some shit. There is definitely a certain development in them.

Much recommended though.
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> I have an ipad that is barely five years old and no longer receives OS updates. You can't even install apps on it (like Netflix, or Youtube) because the OS is "unsupported."

I’m currentLy using a 2016 iPad Pro (so 8 years running) and I use it for both Netflix and YouTube. It’s also still getting updates. Next year will be the first where it seems to have security updates only as well.

Edit: I also just booted up an even older iPhone 5 and both apps work
Ask HN: Is Search Engines Broken?
I am asking this to get a wider perspective and make sure it isn't my personal biases.

Do you feel like about all major search engines, including product's internal search (LinkedIn, Facebook) are mostly broken?

It seems like you can rarely find something unless you know the exact unique name, or you're not looking for a specific result.

Anyone else has similar experience?
In that case, I would take your side of the bet! US startup devs appears (from HN) to have pretty liberal hardware policies. If choosing a laptop, many will choose the best hardware, which is currently a MacBook.
Apple isn't ethically Mullvad, but they're much better than some of their android competitors who allow adverts on the lock screen.
You're missing the simple fact that this idea that the market will arrive at every positive thing that can be quantified is simply wrong. Markets will very very often converge on local maxima if allowed to. This is obvious if you think about it from a simple computational perspective: markets at best do a random walk search, and that can only ever find a local maximum, not the global maximum of a function.